Background and other details of Urooj Zia's investigative piece on Salman Taseer
More to Salman Tasser's assassination than Mumtaz Qadri...
26 April 2011
8 April 2011
Terms, names and concepts that you should know
Terms, names and concepts that you should know: Axis of Evil Rogue States Failed State e-waste Liberalism Socialism Communism Marxism Secularism Free market economy Democracy Conservatism Dictatorship Monarchy Autocracy Fascism Nationalism Adam Smith and Karl Marx 'Wealth of Nations' and 'Das Capital' Bureaucracy Military and civil bureaucracy Orientals and Orientalist (Edward Saeed) Conformists and non-conformists Oligarchy Globalization Inflation Recession Depression and Great Depression Westernization Modernization Police State Cold...
4 April 2011
Conditions for Nikah
Shared by: Ayesha siddiqui
THE Prophet (PBUH) is reported to have said, “The nikah is my Sunnah”, meaning that getting married and performing the nikah is not just a legal formality, but also an important example of the Prophet. This fact does not detract from the importance of the act of getting married, but it clarifies that a person who is not able to get married has not committed a sin.
In Islam marriage is a mutual, legal contract in which both parties agree about each and every article of the agreement, which has been called a “strong...
When the Obamas go out for dinner ...- The Guardian
Shared by: Kiran Ashraf
When the Obamas go out for dinner ..
They are accompanied by up to 30 burly Secret Service agents and the other diners are scanned for concealed weapons. But what about our PM?What happens when the president of the United States fancies going out for a meal? He brings a lot more burly men in black suits than our prime minister. According to the Washington Post, when the first family visit a restaurant, they eat quietly, say hello to the chef and leave a "nice, but not crazy, tip". It's the Secret Service who really...
Technology Gives William & Kate the Upper Hand over the Press
shared by: Narjis Waseem
Technology Gives William & Kate the Upper Hand over the Press
1981, it's hard to remember how much things have changed. When Prince Charles and Diana married, there was no Internet. No Facebook. No Twitter. Personal computers were little more than word processors. Photographs were taken on something called film. No cellphones. Television basically consisted of the three...
Internet pioneer dies
By: Noor-ul-ain Hanif
Internet pioneer diesLOS ANGELES, March 28: Paul Baran, the US engineer who helped create the Arpanet, the government-built precursor to the Internet, has died at the age of 84 in California, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Citing the son of the scientist, the newspaper said Baran had succumbed to lung cancer at his home in Palo Alto, California.In a series of technical papers published in the 1960s, Baran suggested building a communications network that would be less vulnerable to attack or disruption than conventional...
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